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A pensions checklist, investing like a student influencer and property prices on the up - here's our first weekly heads-up of 2021 on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Our 8-point checklist to get your pension in order for 2021 Starting the new year on the front foot, The Telegraph has offered up readers a help list to get their pensions in order. First up the newspaper suggests tracking down old pensions, followed by checking charges.  On the first point the article quotes Aegon's Kate Smith, who is also the newspapers 'pensions doctor', who says: "One resolution worth making and sticking to in 2021 is finding out as much as you can about your pensions. Consolidating these older-style pensions into modern lower charging pensions with online access ...

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